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Iranian tea set and Kurdish carpet in Isfahan, Iran (Source)

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“فکر می کنم در غیاب تو همه‌ی خانه ‌های جهان خالی ست همه‌ی درها بسته است وقتی که تو نیستی من هم… تنهاترین اتفاق بی دلیل زمین‌ام I imagine, in your absence The world is nothing but empty With all its doors shut In your absence I, too a phenomenon without a reason.”

— Said Ali Salehi

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“دوستت دارم باید در چشمان نگریست یا در گوش‌ها گفت؟ I love you. Shall I gaze into your eyes Or whisper into your ears?”

— Ahmad Reza Ahmadi

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Yazd/ Iran

Photographer: Soheil razan

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Masoole village/ Gilan/ Iran

Photographer: amin safaripour

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Pro-Palestinian rally in Tehran

The people of the Iranian capital held a massive rally in support of the Palestinian resistance dubbed “Palestine Is Not Alone” on Wednesday in Imam Hossein Square in the heart of the capital

(at Tehran, Iran) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPFcvBij7JK/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The fact there are men walking around in Iran named the equivalent of “Mars”, “Saturn” and “Jupiter” kind of makes me laugh 😂

The names of celestial bodies that were known to humanity in the time of Classical Persian and have had significance in Persian poetry and astrology.

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The scent of spring has arrived

Sing! Oh sweet nightingale~sing!

Nowruz Mubarak <3 

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نوروزتان پیروز، هر روزتان نوروز

Transcription: nowruz-etān piruz, har ruz-etān nowruz

Meaning: may your Nowruz be succesful, may all your days be Nowruz

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سال ۱۴۰۰ مبارک

Transcription: sāl-e hezār-o-čahārsad mobārak

Meaning: blessed year 1400

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نوروز مبارک / سال نو مبارک

Transcription: nowruz mobārak / sāl-e no mobārak

Meaning: happy Nowruz / happy new year

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Lovely Iranian New Year painting. Here’s why I want a goldfish in bowl tattoo.

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Isfahan, Iran, 1975. Photos by Roland & Sabrina Michaud

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A freeloader in Persian is called a parachutist!

In Persian, if you call someone a chatrbaaz چترباز (parachutist), figurively you’re calling them a freeloader.

If you say someone has opened their parachute (chatr baaz karde چتر باز کرده), figuratively you mean they are freeloading.

In a more informal and also more common way, people would just say chatr shodan چتر شدن (to become a parachute) to mean that they’re gonna freeload. And would simply call freeloaders ‘chatr’ چتر (meaning a parachute).

Example:

A: mishe emruz ham ba maashin to berim? (Can we go with your car today, again?)

B: mikhaai baaz chatr shi? (You wanna be a freeloader again?)

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پوریم

Transcription: purim

Meaning: Purim, the Jewish holiday commemorating events taking place in the Persian Empire in the 5th century BC, during which two cousins, Esther and Mordechai, took action to prevent the Jews of the empire from falling victim to a plot aiming at their destruction. This story is recounted in the Scroll of Esther (in the Hebrew Bible), which is read twice during the festival. A ‘Tomb of Esther and Mordechai’, located in Hamedān (Western Iran), is the most important Jewish holy site situated in Iran and is subject to a pilgrimage from Iranian Jews.

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persian miniatures

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“در غياب تو گفتگو دارم با تو در حضورت گفتگو با خویش In your absence I converse with you With you, I talk to myself.”

— Abbas Kiarostami